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<moderator hat off> > On Jul 3, 2026, at 09:32, masteraravind <[email protected]> wrote: > > Please use chatgpt. > It gives everything. Im surprised that these blogs still exists. !! > > Thanks > Aravind > 91-9003122046 > > On Fri, 3 Jul, 2026, 9:21 pm Jim Gibson via beginners, <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Use the command ‘perl -V’ (that is a capital V) to see where your perl >> installation looks for modules to load. The source file for Finance::Quote >> (Quote.pm) needs to be in a directory Finance somewhere in that path. >> >> You can install modules without using the cpan utility program. >> >> First, download the module distribution from www.cpan.org >> <http://www.cpan.org/>. Then use these commands: >> >> perl Makefile.PL >> make >> make test >> make install >> >> (You may need to preface the last command with ’sudo’) >> >> >> >> > On Jul 3, 2026, at 6:04 AM, Mike <[email protected] >> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > >> > >> > If I do: >> > cpan install Finance::Quote >> > in a terminal on my Linux Mint I expect the Quote.pm >> > file to be installed here: >> > /home/mike/perl5/lib/perl5/Finance/ >> > >> > Instead it installs here: >> > /home/mike/.cpan/build/Finance-Quote-1.70-0/lib/Finance/ >> > >> > Well, OK. So I copy the >> > /home/mike/.cpan/build/Finance-Quote-1.70-0/lib/Finance/ >> > directory to /home/mike/perl5/lib/perl5/, but when I run >> > the supplied quote_example.pl <http://quote_example.pl/> file it gives a >> > long, failed >> > output that begins with: >> > >> > $ perl quote_example.pl <http://quote_example.pl/> >> > >> > Can't locate XML/LibXML.pm in @INC (you may need to install the >> > XML::LibXML module) (@INC contains: ../lib >> > /home/mike/perl5/lib/perl5/5.30.0/x86_64-linux >> > /home/mike/perl5/lib/perl5/5.30.0 /home/mike/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux >> > /home/mike/perl5/lib/perl5 >> > /home/mike/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.30.0/lib/site_perl/5.30.0/x86_64-linux >> > /home/mike/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.30.0/lib/site_perl/5.30.0 >> > /home/mike/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.30.0/lib/5.30.0/x86_64-linux >> > /home/mike/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.30.0/lib/5.30.0) at >> > /home/mike/perl5/lib/perl5/Finance/Quote/MorningstarJP.pm line 27. >> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at >> > /home/mike/perl5/lib/perl5/Finance/Quote/MorningstarJP.pm line 27. >> > Compilation failed in require at /home/mike/perl5/lib/perl5/Module/Load.pm >> > line 78. >> > >> > Here is my path: >> > $ echo $PATH | tr : \\n | sort >> > /bin >> > /home/mike/.cargo/bin >> > /home/mike/.local/bin >> > /home/mike/perl5 >> > /home/mike/perl5/bin >> > /home/mike/perl5/perlbrew/bin >> > /home/mike/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.30.0/bin >> > /sbin >> > /snap/bin >> > /usr/bin >> > /usr/games >> > /usr/local/bin >> > /usr/local/games >> > /usr/local/sbin >> > /usr/sbin >> > $ >> > >> > quote_example.pl <http://quote_example.pl/> is located here: >> > https://www.mflan.com/temp/quote_example.pl >> > >> > I would like to be able to install Finance::Quote and use it. >> > Can anyone here help? >> > >> > >> > Mike >> > >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://learn.perl.org/ >> >>
